(1) Having already seen off the Winklevoss twins who claimed he stole the idea for Facebook from them , Zuckerberg now faces a convicted fraudster who says he has a contract giving him 84% of the social network.
(2) Their story involves a fraudster who posed as their builder, set up a copycat email address and even managed to mock up an incredibly realistic fake invoice.
(3) You’re practically handing your personal information over to a fraudster,” says John Cannon, fraud and ID director at credit report provider Noddle.
(4) Part of the growth is coming as fraudsters are moving away from a small number of hot spot locations to a much wider footprint.” In the past the north-west – particularly Manchester – had been the focal point for the fraudulent claims but partly as a result of the number of successful prosecutions there, fraudsters have now moved on.
(5) Michael Brown, who gave the party £2.4m in 2005, was one of Britain's most wanted fraudsters.
(6) The financial details are allegedly being bought by fraudsters and cold-calling firms.
(7) Sylvia Kneller of Farnham, Surrey, first started responding to the fraudsters when she was 20 years old and says she became "a believer", convinced she would one day win a fortune.
(8) Every magistrate hears idiotic excuses from stupid criminals, but this is the DWP's unsubtle nudge that all claimants are fraudsters beneath the skin.
(9) Frances Knox, 44, from Hertfordshire, has resolved to change her passwords every month after she had her Skype account maliciously taken over by fraudsters on 21 December.
(10) While Ellard was wondering why his mobile wasn’t working at his Hertford home last month, fraudsters were calling O2 pretending to be him to report it stolen.
(11) • Be careful what personal details you share on social media since fraudsters can use these to anticipate likely answers to security questions.
(12) Anyway, back to these fraudsters, who are the least costly element of a leaky system, but nevertheless transfix the political imagination as though they were masterminds of cunning and audacity, whose long game were to destroy the fabric of society altogether.
(13) John Ellard, managing director of a small internet service provider, has had his Nationwide current account emptied of £6,000 after fraudsters apparently took over his O2 mobile account, switched his number to a new Apple handset, and then used it to make a series of fraudulent purchases.
(14) EE said it has recordings of two calls where the fraudster failed security.
(15) The fraudster himself predicted the bank would one day face a big fine over their relationship.
(16) Electronic fraudsters will replace the stocking and shotgun robbers of the past.
(17) However, victims say it takes much longer to get a response from the company when things go wrong, and have questioned whether the speed of approvals and the way loans are set up make it a soft target for fraudsters.
(18) Last week it emerged that fraudsters and scam operators had begun cold-calling possible retirees in a bid to grab some of the billions of pounds that Britons currently invest in annuities.
(19) Bernie Madoff , fraudster The names of Bernie Madoff and of MSI (Madoff Securities International), the London end of his financial operation, are among the most unexpected entries in Kleinwort Benson's Jersey records.
(20) The trial takes place in the same courthouse where alleged fraudster and billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky, former boss of the Yukos oil company and Putin's political enemy, was tried.
Swindler
Definition:
(n.) One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The Kremlin swindlers have understood that paid commenters and an army of bots can't help them in any way with their 'ideological struggle for the internet'," Navalny wrote in his blog on Tuesday .
(2) Navalny vowed to continue his fight against "the swindlers in the Kremlin and the White House", the seat of Russia's government.
(3) The Middle is a family sitcom starring Patricia Heaton and Neil Flynn; while Lone Star features James Wolk as a Texan who leads a double life as both a devoted husband to the daughter of a Houston oil baron and a small-town swindler with a girlfriend 400 miles away.
(4) He worked with the most gifted French directors of his day, from Godard (four films including the masterly Pierrot le fou) and Melville (three gangster pictures and Léon Morin, prêtre) to Louis Malle (in Le Voleur) and Alain Resnais (the eponymous swindler in Stavisky He became France's number one box-office attraction in two Philippe de Broca films: the period swashbuckler Cartouche and the espionage thriller That Man from Rio.
(5) Earlier this month, the bank reached an agreement to pay $1.7bn to settle criminal charges stemming from its failure to report its concerns about Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff's private investment service.
(6) The references to Armenia do not seem accidental – it appears that the authorities aim to demonise the Yunuses by portraying them not only as swindlers but also as enemies of the nation.
(7) They tried to portray her as a manipulative career swindler who ran a lonely hearts scam and spent time in jail.
(8) They include US dentists and middle-class Greek villagers as well as families of despots, Wall Street swindlers, eastern European and Indonesian billionaires, Russian executives, international arms dealers and a company alleged to be a front for Iran's nuclear-development programme.
(9) Navalny provoked special ire earlier this year when he called United Russia , the dominant political party headed by the prime minister, Vladimir Putin, a "party of swindlers and cheats", a nickname that spread like wildfire through young liberals dissatisfied with the country's ruling elite.
(10) Mayhew's account of the cheap goods sold on street corners that carry "gaudy labels bearing sometimes the name of a well-known firm, but altered in spelling or otherwise" will be familiar to anyone who has been tempted to buy a "Louis Viton" handbag or "Guchi" watch, just as the swindler who poses as a "Decayed Gentleman" and sends out begging-letters will strike a chord with anyone stung by email spam.
(11) Swindlers and legitimate fund managers both project an image of respectability and stability - and they both make promises about how much money they can make for clients.
(12) All this was no more than a swindler's just desserts.